Big Box Hockey is a portable self-contained hockey rink. An essential skill necessary for playing hockey is the ability to control, pass, push, stop, and shoot the puck with a hockey stick. The objective of hockey is to score by getting the puck into the opponents' single goal. To do that, you have to get the puck past the other team's goalkeeper, who protects the goal: trying to keep the puck out.

Big Box Hockey is a designed hybrid of the hockey game. To draw out the hard charging, intense moments of defending the goal, Big Box Hockey is built with 18 goals. Each student guards three goals on their panel. Using six colored panels, students surround the outside of the rink in position behind their panel. All stick work is confined to the inside sections. The pace of Big Box Hockey is intense as 6 to 12 players will attack and defend against the puck. A scoring point is awarded to the player who shot the puck through the defenders goals and displayed to all players by moving one of six markers attached to their panel.

We use Big Box Hockey as a noon recess choice, classroom incentive objective, and as an alternative to players during the floor hockey unit in the physical education classes.